El Niño-Southern oscillation and under-5 diarrhea in Botswana

Alexandra K. Heaney; Jeffrey Shaman; Kathleen A. Alexander

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-13584-6

Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

El Niño-Southern oscillation and under-5 diarrhea in Botswana

Alexandra K. Heaney,
Jeffrey Shaman,
Kathleen A. Alexander

Affiliations

Alexandra K. Heaney: Environmental Health Sciences Department, University of California Berkeley
Jeffrey Shaman: Environmental Health Sciences Department, Columbia University
Kathleen A. Alexander: Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13584-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Here, Heaney et al. show that La Niña conditions are associated with higher than average incidence of childhood diarrheal disease in Botswana in the early rainy season. This finding could help to predict childhood diarrhea outbreaks in southern Africa.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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